• PLAXTON is developing a 12.2m short wheelbase version of the Panther coach body on the Volvo B8R chassis. First customer is Roy McCarthy Coaches of Macclesfield, which also took the first 12.2m Leopard body on a B8R.
• SELWYN MOTORS is deregistering its long established Belton-Doncaster service 292 from 12 January. The MCW Metrobus operated on it does not comply with Disability Discrimination Act access requirements. This operation was profiled in July Buses.
• FIRST CYMRU has replaced the Aberystwyth-Cardiff service lost when Lewis Coaches went into administration in August. Its T1C service extends one southbound and one northbound journey of the Traws Cymru T1 (Aberystwyth- Carmarthen) service to Swansea and Cardiff in place of Lewis’s service 701.
